Apple misses on earnings, but sells record 17M iPads — Apple reported its fiscal third quarter earnings on Tuesday of $35 billion in revenue and $8.8 billion in earnings, or $9.32 per share. That's ahead of what Apple itself had forecast, but below what Wall Street was expecting.

Craigslist sues competitor PadMapper over listings — Craigslist has followed up on earlier threats and filed a lawsuit against popular apartment listing site PadMapper. The case raises questions over whether Craigslist is stifling innovation or simply protecting its data.

Netflix Hits Its Q2 Numbers, A Little Light on Subscribers — A first look at the Netflix Q2 numbers: Earnings of 11 cents a share on revenue of $889 million. The street was expecting five cents per share and $889 million. At least as important, though, are the video service's subscriber numbers.

How Many People Use Twitter's Own Apps? — On the latest Talk Show, Gruber wondered what the spread of Twitter clients really is. It made me realise that no one has really explored how many people use Twitter's own apps. I thought I'd (try to) find out.

Amazon Cracks Down on Kindle Web Browsing — When the Kindle launched in late 2007 it came with an experimental web browser as well as free web browsing over the 3g connection. As nice as that was to have, all good things come to an end. There are reports over at MobileRead today that Amazon …

Silicon Valley Worries About Addiction to Devices — Stuart Crabb, a director in the executive offices of Facebook, naturally likes to extol the extraordinary benefits of computers and smartphones. But like a growing number of technology leaders, he offers a warning: log off once in a while, and put them down.

Martin Scorsese does Siri commercial in NYC cab — This is the fourth ad in Apple's line of popular Siri commercials. Martin Scorsese (via MacRumors) follows Samuel L. Jackson, Zooey Deschanel, and a pair of stinkers with John Malkovich. Scorsese is found in his natural environment—on the streets of Manhattan in the back of a cab.

Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics … In computer graphics, high performance is a guiding principle. In the early days of personal computing, discrete, add-on graphics cards were mostly focused on specialized applications such as CAD/CAM and gaming.

And here it is! Comcast's 305 Mbps tier — For $300, people in the Northeast, presumably in areas where Comcast competes with Verizon's fiber to-the-home offering, can soon get 305 Mbps service from Comcast. Upload speeds will be 65 Mbps. The nation's largest broadband provider unveiled its rumored …